Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,628 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Fort Mose, Florida (1738-1820)
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Dating Harriet Jacobs: Why Birthdates Matter to Historians
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Charles Young (1864-1922)
Charles Walter Dryden (Tuskegee Airmen Photo)
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Charles Walter Dryden (1920-2008)

Explore Global African History

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St. Maurice (ca. 250-ca. 287)
Sonia Pierre with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama, 2010 (New York Daily News)
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Sonia Pierre (1963-2011)
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Operations Moses, Joshua, and Solomon (1984-1991)
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Conakry, Guinea (1884- )

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Patient Zero: Thomas Eric Duncan and the Ebola Crisis in West Africa and the United States
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Black Baseball in Minnesota: The Pipestone Black Sox
UNIT 342A: L-R, Alberta Hunter, Alfred Elkins, Ollie Crawford, Leonard Caston, Mae Gaddy & Joe Taps Miller
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Alberta Hunter and the Rhythm Rascals in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II
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“Going South: William Fontaine’s Trip to Virginia, 1948”

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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